Research on cold fusion is it credible?

[Obamot]

both :

it was a question

and because it was not a real question, good night

[gildas]

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http://www.pressreader.com/france/la-tr ... 4/TextView

Source: Quanthomme

[moinsdewatt]

Completely hollow article which brings absolutely nothing on the subject.

[gildas]

Completely hollow article which brings absolutely nothing on the subject.

Really? The rest of the article then:

Quote:

A SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSE THAT IS EXTINGUISHING ...

Fleischmann and Pons, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) tried unsuccessfully to replicate the experiment. They also wrote and published in the journal Nature an inflammatory article on this famous "cold fusion". All in less than five weeks. Never seen before, ”quips Nicolas Chauvin, co-founder of the Swiss startup LENR Cars SA, a leading specialist in the sector based in Ecublens (Switzerland).

For his part, former lecturer in physics at the University of Aix-Marseille, now a retired independent researcher, Jean-Paul Bibérian confirms: "The CNRS forced me to stop my research on cold fusion although they do not cost much ”… especially compared to the Iter hot fusion reactor project (€ 16 billion) and that of burying radioactive waste in Bure (€ 25 billion).

The cold fusion: Interview with Jean Paul BIBERIAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8H1JNJLa0
Since then, methodological problems which prevented the experience of Fleischmann and Pons from being reproduced have been resolved in universities. First in Italy, then in Russia, Ukraine, India, Japan, China, Sweden, United Kingdom, Greece and the United States - but not in France. Scalded cat fearing cold water, the cold fusion community now prefers to speak of "condensed matter physics", or more simply of LENR. In twenty-five years, more than a thousand scientific articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. And some LENR processes have even been subject to technical validations by universities or independent institutes.

NUCLEAR BECOMING A SUBJECT FOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS

With the cold fusion, nuclear power is no longer the prerogative of institutional research. As it operates at low temperature, it becomes accessible by almost artisanal means.

In the wake of the ostracism imposed by the journal Nature on cold fusion, many physicists who, despite everything, wanted to work on this theme, had to give up their academic career and the funding of their research. They then “tinkered” with reactors on the bench of their domestic lab. Clandestine. "As we work at low temperatures, nuclear power has become a subject for independent researchers", recognizes Julien Sase, a young independent researcher who works within a support network with a whole community of scientists. Nuclear power is therefore no longer the preserve of large universities or institutional research centers.

Danger or opportunity? Let’s take a look at the opportunity because independent researchers can demonstrate ethics. “I am working on a little-known low-temperature nuclear reaction (LENR): electronic capture, explains Julien Sase, whose last reactor works with a mixture of water and ammonia at around 100 ° C which powers an electric turbine . I will not launch anything until I have 100% control of my reactor. I do not want to fall into the trap of the temptation to gain too quickly which can generate unknown problems. The young researcher is increasing the number of security measures, especially since he is setting up an association to make eco-villages autonomous in energy ... before creating his startup. ■ EH

INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION ON THE GO

Curiously, we still do not know how to explain the reaction of the cold fusion. However, we are getting better and better at mastering and reproducing it. All with very abundant and inexpensive raw materials such as nickel, lithium and hydrogen. And without pollution or dangerous radioactive emissions. And that changes everything! According to E-Cat World, a reference site in the LENR community, nearly a hundred organizations worldwide are interested in this area. There are even industrialists such as Airbus (which has filed a patent), Boeing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Renault-Nissan, Shell, Toyota… Among the institutions, let us quote the Indian Bhabha Atomic Research Center (Barc), Elforsk (Sweden), the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economy (Enea), NASA, the US Navy, The Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the Chinese Nuclear Society, the Swedish Defense, etc.

In other words, cold fusion is again becoming topical. Mainly with the emergence of a few dozen American startups such as Leonardo Corporation (which raised 62 million dollars), Brilliant Light Power, Brillouin Energy Corporation, Brust Energy, Jet Energy. In Japan, we mention Clean Planet; in the United Kingdom, Clean Nuclear Power LLC; in Sweden, Hydro Fusion; in Italy, Is Tech, NicHenergy and Prometeon SRL; in Switzerland, LENR Cars and LENR Cities; in Germany, Lightstone Technologies and, in Russia, New Inflow… So many start-ups who are in the starting blocks to sell the first LENR reactor. "For twenty-five years, only a few universities have invested in LENR to the tune of 5 or 10 million euros per year worldwide," says Nicolas Chauvin, who has three LENR reactors intended for the world of transport. The accelerator has taken place in the past three years. In 2014, investments increased from 20 to 30 million euros. Last year: 100 million euros. This year, they should reach between 300 and 500 million euros. "

"The time when we laughed at cold fusion is now over," says Michel Vandenberghe, CEO of the Swiss startup LENR Cities, which creates ecosystems to promote the industrial adoption of LENR around the world (see interview, above). And to mention the collaboration agreement between Clean Planet Inc. and the Research Center for Electron Photon Science at Tohoku University (Japan) - in collaboration with the company Head - which benefits from public funding from Nedo, l Japanese counterpart of Ademe. In addition to the desire to strengthen fundamental research in LENR, the Nedo aims to develop energy production processes by 2018 and to decontaminate nuclear waste by transmuting matter. “Mitsubishi has already filed patents on this. When preparing a metal with nano-metallurgy technologies, for example nickel, the material behaves like a hydrogen sponge. It is “condensed” material, explains Didier Pelluet, DGA of LENR Cities SA. By exciting it with electricity, a laser or even sound, nuclear transmutation reactions occur: for example, copper “pushes” like this into nickel! Without emission of gamma rays [highly radioactive, note]. "

It is on this principle of transmutation that one can transform uranium, plutonium or cesium, highly radioactive, into lithium, or even into perfectly harmless lead. "These phenomena are known but it would take the energy of a nuclear power plant to achieve them!" This is where the LENR will come in, because it could be done at very low temperatures and inexpensively ", continues Didier Pelluet of LENR Cities, who is helping to set up the NewK project, an ecosystem of 11 companies around the Sellafield company to structure a European industrial sector for the recycling of nuclear waste at Thornton Scientific Park, near Chester, in the United Kingdom.

REACTORS CLOSE TO MARKETING

For the moment, most projects do not go beyond the laboratory prototype stage. However, two of them seem close to launching their products on the market. Starting with Leonardo Corporation. Its LENR reactor, dubbed E-Cat, which uses hydrogen and nanostructured powders of nickel and lithium, was designed by researcher-entrepreneur Andrea Rossi and researcher Sergio Focardi from the University of Bologna ( Italy). In October 2014, E-Cat was the first LENR reactor to undergo independent technical validation carried out in particular by researchers from the University of Bologna, the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and the Royal Stockholm Institute of Technology. For thirty two days, this tiny device, 33 cm long and 12 cm in diameter, released a temperature between 1 ° C and 260 ° C, generated 1 MW, or between 400 and 1,5 times more energy than it consumed. Currently, Andrea Rossi is developing a whole range of E-Cat prototypes, ranging from the 3,2 kW domestic generator to the 3,6 MW industrial station, already being tested on a site.

Another pioneer, the Californian Brillouin Energy Corporation demonstrated, on November 2, its two reactors WET and HHT in front of the members of the American Congress. "It was an opportunity to show that we are close to the marketing of our products", comments Robert Godes, president and technical director of the company. "Energy efficiency is a factor of 4 [400%, editor's note] and potentially more," says Michael McKrube, director until 2009 of the energy research center of SRI International which, in January 2015, had access to the startup's laboratory and carry out tests in its own facilities. "This transparency creates a climate of trust necessary to consider industrializing Brillouin Energy's technology," said Michael Halem, managing director of LENR Invest, a Swiss-American fund that also invests in the startups LENR Cars, Lenuco LLC and NicHnergy. Still, for the time being, Brillouin is in the AlwaysOn Global 100 list of "100 Silicon Valley companies to watch closely". Another hope is that the Russian company New Inflow claims to have developed a new scientific theory, as well as mathematical models capable of simulating LENRs. An advance which allows it to obtain yields of 600% to 800%. ■

INTERVIEW MICHAEL VANDENBERGHE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF LENR CITIES SA

"PHYSICS IS ON THE EVE TO GENERATE MAJOR ECONOMIC BREAKS ..."
LENR Cities SA is a Swiss startup aiming to develop industrial ecosystems which favor the adoption of cold fusion technologies. Its CEO evokes here the fabulous potential

THE GALLERY - Why is cold fusion a revolution?

The disruptive force of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Technologies (LENR) is so large that it could deeply disrupt global economies and geopolitics. Indeed, the LENR offer clean, abundant, decentralized and "pervasive" energy ... What does this mean? Tomorrow, we will be able to steal all kinds of objects, transmute nuclear waste into harmless materials, manufacture micro- or nanocentrals as well for factories and houses as for vehicles. The slightest electronic card will have its own energy generator. It is a revolution for a very large number of products.

How will the ecosystems you want to create encourage the adoption of LENRs?

Technology only spreads if the market accepts it. It is therefore necessary to propose economic models which accelerate their adoption. Hence the idea of ​​ecosystems which allow actors to come together, exchange experiences and pool their risks. This is what we are doing with Airbus as well as within the framework of the NewK project which aims to build in the United Kingdom a European sector for the reprocessing of radioactive waste. This sector requires mobilizing a lot of energy. In reality, all industries require an enormous amount of energy. However, it is expensive. If we change this equation, we radically transform industry and transportation.

What are the blockages to be lifted?

First of all, physicists are essential but very rare. Then we need nanostructured materials that are produced in insufficient quantities and lack certification. Besides, LENR components will have to be standardized to facilitate their integration into final products. We are entering an era where physics will be the source of major disruptions. ■ INTERVIEW BY ERICK HAEHNSEN
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[moinsdewatt]

Another stupid compilation of nonexistent facts.

What a misery this journalism with nuts.

[raymon]

It is true of large companies like Airbus or newspapers like the forum that is really not serious ...

[moinsdewatt]

It is true of large companies like Airbus or newspapers like the forum that is really not serious ...

the article is not in the Tribune but on this thing http://sans-langue-de-bois.eklablog.fr/

and for Airbus, they don't do research on it. They only hosted conferences on the subject once.

I challenge you to present papers signed Airbus which present the least result.

[raymon]

If you want to buy the February 11 forum, this is it:
http://www.epresse.fr/magazine/la-tribu ... 1/sommaire
the table of contents:
http://www.epresse.fr/magazine/la-tribu ... 2016-02-11
I do not need to buy the item I am already convinced.

[moinsdewatt]

If you want to buy the February 11 forum, this is it:
http://www.epresse.fr/magazine/la-tribu ... 1/sommaire
the table of contents:
http://www.epresse.fr/magazine/la-tribu ... 2016-02-11
I do not need to buy the item I am already convinced.

well La Tribune should do without the services of this Mr. ERICK HAEHNSEN.

[Obamot]

@Raymon: on the theme of this thread, I had questioned my chemistry / physics teacher and former researcher (after having been one of the pundits of chemistry at the Uni and colleague of Charpak at CERN) he had told me that this n 'was not credible, as long as it could not work in the state (or had the proof), since there is no reason that such devices escape the laws of physics / chemistry already known. it is therefore a false debate, because to be credible it is necessary to put the horse in front of the plow, therefore to bring solid proofs before making announcements!

So for the momemt, I find that there is no place. (When you are of goodwill like you, wanting to defend pure and independent research - which is very commendable on your part - you must also be careful not to fall from the panel of prospectors a little too zealous to make fundraising, based on broken promises ... Because on the one hand we can become the toy of particularly skilled hucksters, and on the other hand it would be a shame to take risks in place of said prospectors, to compromise his own credibility).